Knowledge | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
(Court Bans Woman from Entering Brother’s Room to Clean It Against His Will) A Singapore family court has issued protection orders to two adult siblings following a dispute where a sister’s persistent late-night room cleaning led to a physical confrontation with her brother. The brother sought court intervention after his sister repeatedly entered his bedroom between 10pm and 4am over eight years to clean it, causing him such distress that he required multiple admissions to the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), reported Channel News Asia. District judge Tan Zhi Xiang granted both siblings protection orders, along with a domestic exclusion order barring the sister from...
Knowledge | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
Track 61 101-121 East 49 StreetNew York, New York, 10017United States40.756337, -73.973509 Unlike other "abandoned" train stations in the New York City area, the infamous Track 61 is supposedly still in use as a secret escape train for presidents visiting the city. Built along with the rest of Grand Central Terminal, Track 61 was never properly abandoned, as it was actually constructed to be a powerhouse and storage area for unused New York Central Railroad cars, not a passenger station: Contrary to popular belief, Track 61 is not part of the NYC Subway but rather part of the New York Central Railroad, now Metro-North. The station is not much to look at, what with all the...
Knowledge | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
Jay Chaudhry has seen his share of success. The 66-year-old co-founded his first company, SecureIT, with his wife in 1996. That sold for $70 million in an all-stock deal in 1998. He then founded three other companies, AirDefense, CipherTrust and CoreHarbor, all of which were ultimately acquired. In 2008, he founded his current venture, cybersecurity company Zscaler, at which he now serves as the CEO. Zscaler has a current market cap of $25.31 billion as of Thursday. Chaudhry's own wealth is estimated at $9.5 billion, according to Forbes.When it comes to what traits it takes to succeed, Chaudhry cites one characteristic: passion. Specifically, a "passion to achieve something...
Knowledge | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
The world is running out of sand. About 50 billion tons of sand and gravel are extracted annually, most of which is used for construction activities. This is a problem for two reasons. First of all, it’s not sustainable. Secondly, if we continue to extract sand at this rate, it will end up causing irreversible damage to the environment. For instance, loss of sand from oceans, rivers, and beaches can lead to excessive flooding and degradation of marine ecosystems. It threatens coastal communities, and infrastructure. Plus, sand mining near aquifers can lower water tables, affecting water availability for humans, land animals, and agriculture. A new study suggests China may have...
Knowledge | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
ပစ္စည်းလွှဲပြောင်းရေး အက်ဥပဒေပုဒမ-၅၃(က)အရ တံဆိပ်ခေါင်းခွန် ထမ်းဆောင်ထားခြင်းမရှိသော စာချုပ်တစ်စောင်ကို အသုံးပြုခွင့်မရှိပေ။ မြေကွက်အား လွှဲပြောင်းရောင်းချရာတွင်လဲ လက်ရောက်ပေးအပ်ခြင်းဖြင့် အရောင်းအဝယ်အထမမြောက်သေးပါ။ မရွှေ့မပြောင်းနိုင်သော...
Knowledge | Posted by Si Thu Aung
ကွန်လွန်သူ၏ ပိုင်ဆိုင်မှု ပစ္စည်းများအပေါ်တွင် အကျိုးခံစားခွင့်ရှိသူသည် ကွယ်လွန်သူ၏ အမွေ ပစ္စည်းနှင့် ကြွေးမြီများအပေါ်တွင် တရားဝင်ပြောဆိုနိုင်သည့် အခွင့်အရေးရရှိရန် အမွေဆက်ခံရေး အက် ဥပဒေပုဒ်မ - ၂၁၄ အရ အမွေဆက်ခံခွင့်လက်မှတ် လျှောက်ထားရန်...
Knowledge | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
လူတစ်ယောက် အရမ်းပင်ပန်း နွမ်းနယ်နေပြီဆိုရင် အိပ်ယာပေါ်မှာ လှဲလိုက်ရရင် အရမ်းကိုသက်သောင့်သက်သာ ဖြစ်စေပါတယ်။ သင့်အိပ်ခန်းက ဟောင်းနွမ်းနေပြီ ရှုပ်ပွနေရင် သင့်ရဲ့ ပင်ပန်းတဲ့ စိတ်ကိုပိုဆိုးစေပါတယ်။ ဒါကြောင့် မိမိအိပ်ခန်းကို...
Knowledge | Posted by Si Thu Aung
China is always pushing its architectural limits higher and higher. The Aizhai (.矮寨) Bridge is a steel, suspension bridge located deep in the heart of China's Hunan Province. Dubbed 'the most beautiful bridge in the world' by media, the gigantic structure is captured in its full splendor in a recent video footage by New China TV. The bridge's impressive statistics are in the prestigious Guinness world book of records for the highest and longest valley suspension bridge in the world, with a main span of 1,176 metres (3,858 feet) and a deck height of 336 metres (1,102 feet). (Impressive statistics: Aizhai is the world's highest and longest tunnel-to-tunnel bridge and key development...
Knowledge | Posted by Hnin Ei Khin
အခန်းမှောင်ပြီး အလင်းရောင်မရလို့ စိတ်ညစ်ညူးပြီး အခန်းကစိတ်ပင်ပန်းစရာဖြစ်နေတယ်ဆို ဒီအချက်တွေကို ပြောင်းလဲလိုက်ပါ …. - အခန်းထဲမှာရှိတဲ့ မီးလုံး နေရာကိုပြောင်းရွှေ့လိုက်ပါ။ အလင်းရောင်ပေးတဲ့ မီးက ရှိသင့်တဲ့နေရာမှာမရှိတာကလဲ အခန်းမှောင်ခြင်းရဲ့...
Knowledge | Posted by Si Thu Aung
China has experienced decades of industrial and urban expansion, which has transformed the country beyond recognition. A vast middle class has sprung up with cash to spend, fuelling a sharp growth in domestic tourism. Many of China's wealthy city dwellers are heading for the countryside, as they seek new experiences outside their urban existence. To meet the demand for a return to nature, new boutique hotels have started to spring up in rural regions such as Anji - a three-hour drive from Shanghai. MORE Architecture designed a boutique hotel that seems to float above the hills. The building, situated in the middle of the mountainous bamboo forests, establishes an immersive relationship...